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2020/01/02

And Then There Were None

《无人生还》

今天的好书推荐小编就来给大家推荐这本悬疑小说。

 

这本书讲述了10个陌生人的故事，每个陌生人都被一个神秘的主人引诱到印第安岛。 一旦客人到达，主人就指控每个人都是凶手。 由于无法离开该岛，客人开始分享他们最黑暗的秘密-直到他们死亡。

A Brief Introduction to the Author of And Then There Were None

《无人生还》作者简介

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery called The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a 

 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature.

阿加莎夫人玛丽·克拉丽莎·克里斯蒂（Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie），玛洛兰夫人，是一位英语作家。 她以66部侦探小说和14部短篇小说集而闻名，尤其是那些虚构侦探Hercule Poirot和Marple小姐的小说集。 克里斯蒂还创作了世界上上演时间最长的戏剧，一个谋杀之谜《捕鼠器》，并以笔名玛丽·韦斯特马科特（Mary Westmacott）创作了六段恋情。 1971年，由于对文学的贡献，她被任命为大英帝国勋爵。

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Introduction of And Then There Were None:

《无人生还》简介：

The novel opens with all of the main characters traveling by train or car to a ferry that will take them to a mysterious island named Indian Island. Each guest has received an invitation from a Mr. or Mrs. U.N. Owen, or a Mrs. Constance Culmington, to come to the island. 

As they travel towards the island, each has a brief moment of remembering a traumatic experience from their past. Each, it seems, has been involved in some way with a past death. For some, they are clearly related to the deaths. For others, the connection is less sure. The guests arrive at the ferry. The captain, Fred Narracott, thinks that this is a strange crew and not the young rich crowd he had been expecting. When they arrive at the island, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, the house’s servants, escort them to their rooms. The characters learn that they have not actually met Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen; the servants had only been hired a few weeks before. In her room, Vera Claythorne discovers an old piece of parchment in her room. On it is the rhyme of the Ten Little Indian Boys. The rhyme chronicles the actions and deaths of ten Indian boys. Each are killed until there were none.

At dinner, the guests begin to acquaint themselves with one another and become more comfortable with their surroundings. Later, in the drawing room, all sit listening to the sound of the ocean when, suddenly, a booming voice echoes through the room. The voice charges the guests with a list of indictments. Each guest is named and then implicated in the murder of a person.

这部小说的开头是所有主要人物乘坐火车或汽车前往轮渡，去往一座名为印第安岛的神秘岛屿。 每位客人都收到了O.N. Owen先生或夫人或Constance Culmington夫人的邀请来到此岛。

当他们前往岛上时，每个人都有短暂回想起过去的经历。 似乎他们每个人都以某种方式参与了死亡。 对于某些人来说，这些经历显然与死亡有关。 然而对其他人来讲却并非如此。 客人到达轮渡之后。 机长弗雷德·纳拉科特（Fred Narracott）认为这是一群奇怪的船员，而不是他一直期望的年轻富裕人群。 当他们到达岛上时，房子的仆人罗杰斯夫妇陪同他们到房间。 大家得知他们实际上并没有见过Owen夫妇。 这些仆人只是在几周前录用的。 维拉·克莱索恩（Vera Claythorne）在她的房间里发现了一块旧羊皮纸。 上面是十个印第安小男孩的押韵诗歌。 诗歌记载了十个印第安男孩的行动和死亡。 每个人都被杀死，直到没有人被杀死。

晚餐时，客人开始互相了解，并更加适应周边的环境。 后来，所有人都坐在客厅里聆听海的声音，忽然间，嗡嗡作响的声音回荡在房间里。 语音向客人提起诉讼，每个客人都在名单里，他们被指控为凶手……

The reason to recommend And Then There Were None

《无人生还》小说推荐理由：

“The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.” (New York Times)

“One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.” (Time magazine)

“One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.” (The Observer (UK))

“There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last….The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christie’s previous best―on the top notch of detection.” (New Statesman (UK))

“The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” (Daily Herald (UK))

“What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind ‘by indirections shall we find directions out.’ ” (Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels)

“整个事情完全是不可能的，完全是令人着迷的。 这是阿加莎·克里斯蒂（Agatha Christie）有史以来最令人困惑的谜。”（《纽约时报》）

“许久以来，最巧妙的悬疑小说之一。”（《时代》杂志）

“最好的，真正最令人困惑的克里斯蒂的作品之一。”（《观察家》（英国））

“毫不避讳的讲，读者彻头彻尾的被迷惑了……这是一项伟大事业的最大成就。该书必然位列克里斯蒂夫人作品之首---在悬疑小说中名列前茅。

“自从罗杰·阿克罗伊德谋杀案以来，最令人惊讶的，巧妙的，最成功的神秘故事。”（英国《每日先驱报》）

“阿加莎·克里斯蒂（Agatha Christie）教给我的是关于红鲱鱼的精致摆放的问题。 她是“通过定向就能找到指示的方向”背后的终极天才。”（《纽约时报》伊丽莎白督察小说的畅销书伊丽莎白·乔治）

以上就是本期好书推荐的全部内容啦~

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